{"id":577610,"date":"2010-05-25T05:36:55","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T09:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/dde32284393260d6cc22b41d58a22cdf"},"modified":"2010-05-25T05:36:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T09:36:55","slug":"what-is-an-iambic-pentameter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/577610","title":{"rendered":"What Is An Iambic Pentameter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and metre in which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan England.  It is a metre that Shakespeare uses.  <\/p>\n<p>Quite simply, it sounds like this:<\/p>\n<p>dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM<\/p>\n<p>It consists of a line of five iambic feet, ten syllables with five unstressed and five stressed syllables.  It is the first and last sound we ever hear, it is the rhythm of the human heart beat.  It is percussive and attractive to the ear and has an effect on the listener&#8217;s central nervous system.  <\/p>\n<p>An Example of Pentameter from Shakespeare:<\/p>\n<p>but SOFT what LIGHT through YONder WINdow BREAKS<\/p>\n<p>The Iambic Pentameter with the seemingly difficult and encoded language is one of the things that puts off school children.  But it is simple to learn and easy to speak once it comes alive for you.<\/p>\n<p>Shakspeare also writes in prose, usually when showing a character of lower status.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/qN7-92Ff4IE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iambic Pentameter is the rhythm and metre in which poets and playwrights wrote in Elizabethan England. It is a metre that Shakespeare uses. Quite simply, it sounds like this: dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM, dee DUM It consists of a line of five iambic feet, ten syllables with five unstressed and five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-577610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}